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Archive Home > 2009 > May > 30 > Death penalty cases among early issues

Death penalty cases among early issues

By Mark Sherman / The Bulletin
May 30, 2009

WASHINGTON — As a director of a Puerto Rican advocacy group in the 1980s, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor was part of a three-person committee that equated capital punishment with racism.

The Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund argued in a 1981 letter to the governor of....

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